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In this guided meditation, Sharon begins by pointing out that in Tibetan Buddhism, it is said we should look at the contents our minds like a great-grandmother, with care and tenderness, yet with perspective. This meditation is about allowing all thoughts and emotions space to arise and pass away without judgment. The guided meditation lasts […]

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Speakers: Sharon Salzberg & Roshi Joan Halifax In this session, Roshi discusses “eudemonia” s a sense of flourishing, or joy – the upwelling of feeling that arises when we live a virtuous life. Then with the participants, Sharon and Roshi discuss the presence of real joy in unwholesome or even situations of degradation: in educationally […]

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Roshi reflects on the broken-heartedness of current events and then opens discussion with the question “What is joy?” The discussion continues with humorous Zen stories and insights. Roshi then playfully identifies the various kinds of joy found in Buddhism, and illustrates these with delightful examples from her life of practice.

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Speakers: Sharon Salzberg and Roshi Joan Halifax This session begins with a discussion of and instructions for lovingkindess meditation. In meditation, we use simplicity and structure to help stabilize the attention. Then, after the meditation, Sharon and Roshi welcome questions from the participants: on the “grandmother’s heart;” suffering and the tools of healing; and creating […]

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Sharon starts out leading a meditation on the breath. She then begins the session pointing out that, in order to really know joy, it is essential to acknowledge suffering. A tremendous sense of compassion and even liberation can arise once we acknowledge how vulnerable our lives are. If we can relate more compassionately towards our […]

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Speakers: Sharon Salzberg, Roshi Joan Halifax & Zuleikha Sharon opens the retreat by illustrating the role of joy in our everyday lives as a quality that can arise when we let go and begin again even amidst our imperfection, to feel the sense of renewal always present in our lives. She then guides the participants […]

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Speakers: Roshi Joan Halifax & Sensei Beate Genko Stolte Sensei Beate begins the talk by exploring the five skandhas and encouraging sesshin participants to study the skandha of feeling in particular. The ancestors did exactly this, and it produced clarity in their lives. We too must be courageous and look at our experience through the […]

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In the Mahayana, the Bodhisattva precepts are based on compassion. The precepts call us to look at our intentions and then the consequences of our actions – if we can become aware of these, then we might do differently the next time. Even with people who might be difficult for us, a natural desire to […]

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Speaker: Stephen Batchelor The Buddha’s teaching was dialogic: interactive and responsive to the present circumstances. Stephen asks us to find the foundation beneath the superstructure of culture in order to understand the Buddha’s teaching. Stephen goes on to discuss what the Buddha meant by “entering the stream,” including three things that fall away for the […]